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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
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The movie business is macabre. Grotesque. It is a combination of a football game and a brothel.
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The artist is simply the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. Federico Fellini,
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When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
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It's better to destroy than to create when you're not creating those few things which are truly necessary.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
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Cinéma-vérité? I prefer 'cine-mendacity'. A lie is always more interesting than the truth. Lies are the soul of showmanship and I adore shows.
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Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
January 20, 1920
Died:
October 31, 1993
(aged 73)
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